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Bartley 2008

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Archive for the 'Website' Category

Which car gets the best mileage?

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Check FuelEconomy.gov for details.

Survey of Consumer Sentiment

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Survey of Consumers  -  Free from the University of Michigan

AliBaba Suggestions

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

An 1102 student has made the following suggestions for using AliBaba for getting manufacturing costs, I will summarize below:

  • AliBaba is probably the most useful tool we as a group have come across as of yet.  There are so many more companies there than on Thomas Register.
  • I would suggest not using your cellphone _*number like I have because I have probably received 15-20 phone calls from Vietnam / China / Los Angeles in the past 36 hours.

These were not made by companies I contacted but by others trying to sell their services to me.

  • *_TradeManager, AliBaba’s instant messaging service works great_*.  If you leave it open, you will find that as long as you describe what you are looking for in your profile and correctly select an appropriate industry, even people that you have not contacted will message you and try to offer their services.
  • It worked best to use the Contact Now option on AliBaba and send an email first,_ then the people working for those companies will promptly respond.  The only downside is that this primarily happens around 8-12 at night because of the time difference since these are primarily Chinese companies.  Try not to be too specific because a lot of things you say get lost in translation, and regardless of whether or not the company can offer you exactly what you are looking for, they will respond.
  • Once you get them on TradeManager though, you will be able to find out specifically.

Financial Times

Monday, March 12th, 2007

In addition to our full text holdings in ABI/Inform and Lexis-Nexis, students can now read the paper copy of Financial Times and access both the digital version of the paper as well as all contact on FT.com by following this link provided by the college of Arts and Sciences.

http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/college/academics/financial_times.htm

Alchohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Find a variety of regulation and other federally implemented issues surrounding the alchoholic beverage industry. The TTB.gov is an official U.S. Government Source.

Country Research Guide

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

The Country Research Guide, compiled by Linda Hauck, is a great summary of some of the most relevant resources available to students and faculty at Falvey Memorial Library.

Consumer Product Safety Commission

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Use the CPSC to explore product recalls and other issues.

Librarian’s Internet Index

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

LII is built and developed by librarians from various schools and universities around the country. Content is searchable and is also broken down by section/topic. Especially useful to those researching a topic that they are unfamiliar with.

Librarian’s Internet Index

Spotbowl

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Watched the Superbowl? Here is how the ads were ranked by one source.

Spotbowl 

The Iraq Study Group Report is now available.

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

I saved a copy on the websites link as well.

The Full Report From USIP.